Wa. Donaldson et Lw. Shang, REACTIVITY OF (PENTADIENYL)IRON(1- EFFECT OF PERIPHERAL LIGANDS ON THE REGIOSELECTIVITY OF NUCLEOPHILIC-ADDITION() CATIONS ), Tetrahedron letters, 36(10), 1995, pp. 1575-1576
Nucleophilic addition to the (1-methylpentadienyl)Fe(CO)(2)PPh(3)(+) c
ation proceeds predominantly at the substituted pentadienyl terminus t
o afford (5-substituted-1,3-(Z)-hexadiene)Fe(CO)(2)PPh(3) products in
very good yields. Decomplexation with Ce4+ generates the free ligand i
n good yields.